xiii, 231 pages : 24 cm

"This book is a history of women, radio, and the gendered constructions of voice and sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Through the stories of five women and one radio station, this study makes a substantial theoretical contribution to the study of gender, mass media, and political culture and expands our knowledge of these issues beyond the US and Western Europe. Included here is a study of the first all-women's radio station in the Western Hemisphere, an Argentine comedian known as 'Chaplin in Skirts', an author of titillating dramatic serials and, of course, Argentine First Lady 'Evita' Perón. Through the concept of the gendered soundscape, this study integrates sound studies and gender history in new ways, asking readers to consider both the female voice in history and the sonic dimensions of gender"--

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index

Introduction: Gender in and on the air -- 1. Radio and the modern girl : Silvia Guerrico and Buenos Aires broadcasting -- 2. A station for women in Montevideo : Radio Femenina -- 3. Feminism and populism on the airwaves : Paulina Luisi and Eva Duarte de Perón -- 4. Chaplin in Skirts? Niní Marshall -- 5. Nené Cascallar : airing clean and dirty longing -- Echoes of soundscapes past : epilogue and conclusion

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